کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7376540 1480081 2018 34 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Zipf's law and city size distribution: A survey of the literature and future research agenda
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه ریاضیات فیزیک ریاضی
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Zipf's law and city size distribution: A survey of the literature and future research agenda
چکیده انگلیسی
This study provides a systematic review of the existing literature on Zipf's law for city size distribution. Existing empirical evidence suggests that Zipf's law is not always observable even for the upper-tail cities of a territory. However, the controversy with empirical findings arises due to sample selection biases, methodological weaknesses and data limitations. The hypothesis of Zipf's law is more likely to be rejected for the entire city size distribution and, in such case, alternative distributions have been suggested. On the contrary, the hypothesis is more likely to be accepted if better empirical methods are employed and cities are properly defined. The debate is still far from to be conclusive. In addition, we identify four emerging areas in Zipf's law and city size distribution research including the size distribution of lower-tail cities, the size distribution of cities in sub-national regions, the alternative forms of Zipf's law, and the relationship between Zipf's law and the coherence property of the urban system.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications - Volume 492, 15 February 2018, Pages 75-92
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